Chapter 8, What happened at that dorm.

The next morning Alexis was sitting on her bed, she had hardly gotten any sleep last night, she turned her head and looked at the picture of her and Atticus she had brought back with her, she had placed the photo on her nightstand next to her bed and his deck into an empty draw of her jewellery box.

Alexis heard a knock on her door and went to answer it, it was Mindy and Jasmine "Hey Alexis we wanted to know if you wanted to come play basketball" said Mindy, but when they noticed the dark circles under her eyes they looked shocked.

"Alexis are you alright, you don't look well" asked Jasmine with concern, Alexis smiled to her friends "Don't worry, I just didn't get enough sleep last night" she said, Mindy laughed "Was you up all night studying again" she asked, "Yes, that what happened" Alexis lied, she couldn't tell them where she really was last night.

Jasmine still looked concerned "Well if you're tired maybe you should take a nap instead" she said, "No lets go play basketball instead, I'd really like that right now" said Alexis though she wouldn't say it she didn't want to be alone today, she didn't want to think how her brother was most likely dead.

Robin walked up to the school building "Something dark happened at that dorm I'm sure of it, I just don't know what" he thought as he entered the school "I hope that the library has the type of book I'm looking for".

Robin entered the school library, the library was a large room filled with books organised by category, no one else was in the library they was all out enjoying the weekend. With no one to bother him Robin started to search for some books that might help him.

After a few minutes of searching Robin sat at a table in the corner with four thick books in his hands, he placed the books on the table and opened the first one. This book was called Egyptian myths, legends and magic, "I guess this should be a good place to start" he thought as he started to read.

In his office Dr Crowler sat at his desk "Where is that boy I told him to be here ten minutes ago" he thought, at that moment there came a knock at his door "Come in" said Crowler, the door opened to reveal Chazz.

Chazz walked up to the desk "You wanted to see me sir" he said, "Yes Chazz I wanted to talk to you about tomorrow, as you know you will be duelling Jaden Yuki" said Crowler, Chazz smirked "Don't worry I'll slaughter that Slifer" he said.

Crowler smiled "Yes, well I wanted to be sure that you win tomorrow" he said as he open one of his desk draws and took out some cards, "I would like you to have there's Chazz" he said passing the cards to Chazz.

Chazz looked at the cards there was VW tiger catapult, V tiger jet, W wing catapult and several cards to help summon them easier, "Thank you sir" he said, "Now go and prepare your deck for tomorrow and don't speak a word of this to anyone" said Crowler, Chazz placed the cards in his pocket and left the office to return to his dorm.

Alexis and several other girls was playing basketball in the gym hall. Alexis throw the ball to the hoop, it hit the rim of the basket and missed. Alexis was having fun but fatigue was starting to set in and the others had noticed.

Miss Fontaine who had been refereeing for the game approached Alexis saying "Alexis dear, don't you think you should stop, it's not healthy to push yourself when you're tired", Alexis was breathing deeply "No Miss I'm ok" she said while gasping for breath.

Miss Fontaine look more serious now "Ok we'll do this the other way. Alexis as head nurse of Duel academy I order you to stop playing and go and get some rest" she said decisively. Alexis know she couldn't argue now so she headed for the showers.

After a shower and changing back to her usual attire Alexis walked down the hallway, she still didn't want to go back to her dorm so she looked for somewhere quiet to rest, however every room she paced was loud with people playing.

After ten minutes of searching she found a room that was quiet, the library, "Well, at least no one should be in here today" she thought as she entered, Alexis didn't notice Robin sitting in the corner as she made her way to a bookshelf.

Alexis chose The black swan and turned around to go to a table when she saw Robin in the corner, she sat at the same table as him and noticed the small pile of books at his side that he had already gone through.

The books at his side were Egyptian myths, legends and magic, Egypt's darkest secrets and Atlantis the fall of an empire. Alexis thought that this was a strange set of books to read "Robin what are you reading" she asked.

Robin's head snapped up quickly looking at her, "Oh Alexis you scared me, I didn't notice you come in" he said, Alexis smiled "Sorry about that, but what are you doing" she asked again "I was just doing some research" replied Robin.

Alexis looked back to the other books "About ancient cities" she asked, "No, not even close" Robin said closing the book he was reading, Alexis saw this book was called Black magic and dark rituals. "Robin what exactly are you doing" she asked.

Robin looked to the library door making sure no one was coming in, "Ok then, I think someone was messing with dark magic in that abandoned dorm and I'm trying to figure out what it was" he whispered.

"What's he talking about, magic isn't real, is it" Alexis thought, but despite this she couldn't forget how unnatural that building felt last night "Did you find anything" she asked, Robin shook his head "Nothing, I'm sure that everything in these books is fake" he said.

Robin sighed "Alexis, I don't want to upset you by asking this but what happened after you brother vanished" he said, Alexis felt her heart sink she didn't want to think about that day but she could see Robin was trying to help her.

Alexis started her story "Well we stopped getting messages from Atticus which we thought was strange, but then a couple of weeks later two men in business suits came to our door, they offered my parents fifteen million yen for them to sign a contract saying that Atticus never existed".

Alexis clenched her fist in anger remembering the next part "My parents had been having some money problems recently so they signed the contract and told me never to talk about Atticus again. I was so angry that the next day I ran away from home and I haven't seen them since" she finished.

Robin was shocked to hear this "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I had no idea" he said, Alexis unclenched her fist "It's ok, you've done more than my parents ever did" she said.

"Robin can I ask you something and I want you to be honest" Alexis asked, "Ok then what is it" said Robin, "What do you think the chances are that my brother's still alive" she asked, Robin sighed "I don't know what happened so I can't be sure, but it's not very likely I'm afraid".

Alexis felt her heart sink again "I'm feeling tired, I think I'll go to my room" she said walking to the door "Alexis" she heard Robin say, she turned around to look at him "I'm really sorry for what happened, if you ever need to talk to someone just let me know" he said, Alexis couldn't help but smile at that "Thank you" she said as she left the library.